Successfully (after much mucking around) negotiated the machine) to buy a metro ticket. There is an English translation button but it doesn’t translate everything).
Everyone in the city speaks French. 50% are bilingual with English the main second language. Everyone we’ve spoken to speaks excellent English even if it’s not their first language.
We are headed to the Jardin botanique de Montreal and found the Olympic Stadium on the way to the gardens. We’d see in from a distance a number of times.
Have to put both these photos because the second one shows the structure better but the sun went behind a cloud and other didn’t look white. The Olympic Stadium was built for the 1976 Summer Olympics. The retractable roof, designed by a French Architect, never worked. They are currently renovating the building and have a German Architrct reimagining the roof. There is a funicular to get to the top of the tower but it is currently being renovated. 
The Jardin botanique de Montreal main entry.
Stunning orchids.
Orchid.
Orchid.
The entry to the Chinese garden. The stone was donated by China.
Entry to the Chinese garden. Chinese workers originally designed the building and have added to it and repaired it over the years.
Beautiful Penjing. 65 year old Juniper. Juniperus procumbens ‘nana’ . Apparently bonsai originated in China but it’s called Penjing and is more a complete miniature landscape than just a minature tree.
Juniperus chinensis ‘Itoigawa’ 50 years old.,
Bell donated by the Japanese outside the Japanese garden. The bell is strict once a year at the time and date the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
We went back to the Chinese garden after an early dinner for the light show event in the gardens. This is the bridge over the pond in the Chinese garden.
Fish.
One of the Chinese pagodas.
Chickens!
Dragon!
Baby Pandas!
Bamboo lanterns.
Water feature.
Lights which followed. They went off and on in a wave under the trees the length of the path.
Dinner at the Botanic Gardens Terrace Restaurant which was a cafe really.
